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"noting that Indians "feel pretty strongly" about mascots and team names that depict negative stereotypes about their heritage"

What percentage of Indians? Indians belonging to which political club? And what exactly is negative about these names? It seems to me that given the love of sports and sports teams that to name them in association with the Indians is a compliment. To date I have not seen a sports team named "Dirty Indians" or "Drunken Welfare Dependent Indians" or "Untrustworthy Double Dealing Indians."

Six assholes with Phd after their names sitting around a Sociology department thinking up new ways of being offended is not consensus.

"noting that Indians "feel pretty strongly" about mascots and team names that depict negative stereotypes about their heritage"

What percentage of Indians? Indians belonging to which political club? And what exactly is negative about these names? It seems to me that given the love of sports and sports teams that to name them in association with the Indians is a compliment. To date I have not seen a sports team named "Dirty Indians" or "Drunken Welfare Dependent Indians" or "Untrustworthy Double Dealing Indians."

Six assholes with Phd after their names sitting around a Sociology department thinking up new ways of being offended is not consensus.

To be fair, Redskins is probably the single Indian-themed name that is genuinely offensive (imagine the Detroit Blackskins playing the Chicago Crackas), but the activists would have more credibility if they hadn't inserted themselves into so many fake controversies with team names that the Indian tribes actually liked and suported.
Still, they have a point, and the DC team should reflect the local culture, either as the nation's capitol, or the dysfunctional ghettoized hellhole that is the rest of the city. A few suggestions:

The Graft
The Kleptocrats
The Gridlocks
The Thugs (or maybe "THUGZ"; gotta keep it real, yo)
The Poll-Watching Power Junkies
The Ruling Class
The Scandals